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Word: tikhomirov (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...critical emphasis was on labor. Chemical Industry Boss Sergei Tikhomirov complained of "the stagnation and routine attitude prevalent among some workers." Others complained of the "complacency and smugness of ... workers" and the "great shortcomings in the standardization of labor." Workers were condemned for what apparently is the common practice of lying down on the job in the first half of the month and then working like crazy (and at overtime) in the second half to make up the month's prescribed production quota. A new word was added to the Soviet work vocabulary to describe this phenomenon: shturmovshchina...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Depression at Home | 6/6/1955 | See Source »

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